The Press: Legman in China

"To hell with the big picture," said Toronto Globe and Mail Reporter
William Kinmond when he crossed into Red China last May. Instead,
hardboiled, inquisitive Bill Kinmond, 42, set out to report on the
country in the down-to-earth fashion in which he regularly covers the
Ontario legislature. By last week, when Reporter Kinmond returned to
Hong Kong, his first 25 small-picture stories in the Globe and Mail
(which plans to run ten more) added up to the broadest, most
fact-packed portrait of China to come out of the mainland since the
Communists took...